I got into a ldr by joining a dating website. He seemed to be the only person I was clicking with. It turned into a heavy romance and then to love.
I question every day if it's worth it. I don't know yet and I wonder all the time if its real or a fantasy. We're 5 hours in time difference, different continents and it's hard to just connect by computer, phone, or txt.
It's just a really hard situation to live and I don't know yet if I made the right choice or how long I can hang in there.
I've been single for a few years and sometimes I think that's better than waiting, & waiting some more. Then again maybe we just don't communicate as often as my needs dictate, so many thoughts and no answers.

It started here. It came from a love for his amazing compassion and willingness to really be interested in what i say.

Me&&my bf met on a chat site called Hauntingechoes lolol we just started talking then i added him to my msn. we got to know eachother as a friendship then it led to a relationship/fascination then love/fatuation and now its more like in love/obsession. lol it's worth sticking to beacause, i can't say he's my "other half" because you have to be complete yourself in order to be in any kind of relationhip, but its like he gets every part of me and doesnt at the same time but its all perfect thow. he has things in common with me but doesnt and i like that. it gives me a chance to learn something new about him and vise-versa. i learn something new about him every day. and that makes him perfect for me. that and the known face that he loves me. :]

My guy and I met on a social site called myyearbook. We had been friends on there for several months but hadn't really talked, then suddenly one day we did and discovered how much we have in common. Every day was a surprise, and now there is a connection between us that neither of us has ever felt before. We haven't even met but are very much in love. We think alike, like the same things, have the same views on pretty much everything, and can just talk for hours and hours. Everything with him just fits. He is my soulmate. And I know it's worth keeping because he is the only man-EVER-who accepts me unconditionally. I have a disorder called PMDD and he not only did research on it but he is patient and understand and helps me through it. I KNOW he's the right guy!

My more recent one started on here about a year or two ago. We broke up once, then got back together. The break up was because of my confidence. Anyway, she lives on the west coast, in CA, while I live on the east coast, in CT. After we first met on here, we started growing closer and closer to each other until we realized our feelings. We've just never met in person, but we're working on it.

Zach and I met during my senior year of college. It was technically his freshman year, even though he is only a year younger than me. None of his credits from tech school transferred, so he had to start over.

I tried like hell to stay around and wait for him after I graduated. But I graduated in December 2007, right when the economy fell apart. Nobody was hiring. Mind you, we were in a town where the job market stinks even in a decent economy. I tried for about a year and a half to cobble together enough hours from temp and part-time jobs to get by, while applying feverishly for something better.

I was pretty much having a nervous breakdown. I was having three and four panic attacks a day. I was unfaithful, never technically cheated but we did break up. Never stopped seeing each other completely, I was the one going around and hurting him. This is just one more way in which he is incredibly kind and understanding. He somehow knew that this, too, was just a manifestation of how the stress was eating me alive.

I accepted that there was no opportunity of the sort I needed there, and I needed to branch out. I was not getting by, choosing between food and heat bills or rent. On the verge of homelessness. I applied for jobs within a 5-hour radius of home, and Indy is where I got the offer, so this is where I came. Zach and I got back together about a month after I came up here. I could finally relax and I became myself again. We talk several times a day, see each other about once a month, and basically it's the most inconvenient thing I've ever done. But we want each other more than we want convenience.

I'm also a member of the Depression support group, and I've finally decided to seek professional help to make sure that no matter what happens, I hopefully will not sink so low again. He inspires me to be a stronger and better person than I knew I could be.

I had a suitor for 4months who is in Canada. I did like him. He is very nice, very charming and gentleman. Although I can only see his good side, I let him wait for my decision if I am going to wait for him in 2011. Then, in an unexpected place I saw my high school crush. Instantly we had a connection, and things happened very fast. We started dating. And he finally have to go back to Qatar for one year of work. And we are communicating everyday.

It has crossed my mind that if the guy in Canada was here, he could have swooped me first. Because I thought that long distance relationship is really hard. Then it is what I end up with still.

here on ds.

My soul mate was found in a parking lot at a motel 6 in CA...I was dropping off my uncle and I spotted this cute guy in the parking lot. I took a chance and asked him out for a drink. We hit it off right away and continued our relationship through phone calls, letters and taped messages! It was 1985 and he lived in Illinois. We were best friends through our communications. I saw him every 2 to 8 weeks form anywhere of 3 days to 10 days at a time. We fell in love right away and never discussed living together right away. I moved to Illinois after dating him for 1 1/2 yrs...We have been together for 25 yrs....22 of wich we have been married! We have always been best friends and truely need each other to survive this sometimes hard journey through life. We support each other and really have a good time together. Recently we have been through a very rough time and it has been a true test of our relationship. We are getting through it and I know we will come out of this stronger and more in love than ever!

I am in my second LDR.
I met him in NJ when I was doing an Internship. Then the internship finished and we have been in touch -close to each day- since January.
I have Bipolar Disorder Type I. He has been very understandable and very warm with my mood swings.
He is part of my life although we are miles far away...

It started because of Harry Potter. lol. I began writing stories about Harry Potter and posting them on the internet and my fiance read one and... well, the rest was history. :) He lives in England, I am in the States. We've been together for 3 1/2 years, known each other for 4. We've met in person quite a few times and have taken vacations together (to London, to Vegas and to Chicago). We're waiting on our K1 Visa to clear the USCIS! :D

i met my current bf here on DS. we had several support groups in common, so we started talking. we hit it off imediately, and it quickly evolved from strangers to friends tobeing in a long distance relationship

After reading my comment I can shine a bit more light on what it's like.

I really met someone in a prophetic dream a long time ago. We had a long distance relationship of a strange kind.

But currently, when it rains it pours.....I have a few special people I have been in relationships with for years and one for months. You see sometimes its hard to know if the compassion for someone's suffering makes the heart confused. Is it love? Compassion? The need to save someone?

It's very hard when someone is in another country. It's a nightmare to think about calling if someone is 9 hours away. It's sometimes hurts more than it feels good.

It can also be scary because what if one of you dont feel "it" once you meet. So many expectations and then none at all. He says he is coming to visit in September. I don't tend to believe miracles happen very much so my view is skewed to the point where sometimes I don't believe he loves me.

Other times, it's just friggin hard to be in love with a ghost on a screen. It's also delightful at the same time.

I love so many people because Im never sure if I love just one I'll get hurt. If that makes sense.

We will see how this incredible conversational coorespondance continues to heat up.

I met him on stickam a year ago or so and he was highly attracted me and I didn't care much for him he then confesed to me he was falling for me after about two months and I refused to even like him even though I refused to fall for him or even consider him as anything more than a good conversation we kept on comunicating every day at the same time few months after I found out I loved him and recently found out that I am in love with him. What made me fall for him was his personality and I know that If I ever left him I would be unhappy and that there would be no one better than him.

For me, I went to a website for learning languages. I had been on a few chat sites and had some bad experiences with relationships there. I figured I would find someplace safe to hangout and at the same time learn a new language. Well, I saw a beautiful woman and asked her to be a language partner ( I wanted to learn Spanish, she was Spanish and wanted to learn English). We were friends for a couple of months, helping each other. Then one day I asked if she was in a relationship. The rest as they say....is history.
I visited her for nine days a few months ago and got engaged. We have had our ups and downs, but there has never been any doubt about where we were heading. While it is very difficult being so far apart, this by far has been the most rewarding relationship I have had...ever!